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p_j_w

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    Comment #48937478

    >Consoles have been riding on their momentum of their brands This is entirely wrong. Consoles have been riding consistency and ease of use. Sure, if you look just at the spec sheet…

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    Comment #48937419

    Ohioans need to elect better reps then, don't they?

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    Comment #48900340

    I'm not sure I understand the question.

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    Comment #48872872

    > In some states you have to click into the listing before learning that there's an extra $500 cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate :) And the “house rules” still require you to…

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    Comment #48872756

    First line in the article: > Each figure is the shareholder wealth a founder’s company created, now held by index funds, pensions, employees and co-founders, minus what the founder…

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    Comment #48832871

    >What's wrong with unpasteurized milk A substantially increased risk of disease. >What's wrong with [...] beef tallow? A substantially increased risk of heart disease.

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    Comment #48701806

    > telling people it's all "black magic" and "wizardry" (and worst of all, saying "even RF engineers don't understand RF") makes it seem like it's not worth studying. I think the op…

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    Comment #48687079

    > Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95. I wish I could say such behavior was shocking. Everything Springer touches turns to shit.

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    Comment #48669476

    That’s a pittance compared to their revenue.

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    Comment #48626305

    > values that people in the US might care about (freedom of speech, limited govt, etc). The US federal government forced Paramount to take Colbert off the air. Seems that people in…

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    Comment #48606993

    So wealthy people can go ahead and violate your privacy interests, but not really anyone else? I’m sorry, but this is a bad answer to the problem. The solution is to fix the redact…

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    Comment #48550575

    > The Bolsheviks certainly were good at it, yet we don't learn about the 23+ million they massacred in US schools. Those of us who paid attention certainly did.

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    Comment #48512075

    I don’t need an AI to tell me about Tiananmen Square. I need it to do boring grunt work.

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    Comment #48467207

    Is looking up nutrients a significant daily burden?

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    Comment #48462480

    That’s the same MSRP as the Samsung foldable.

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    Comment #48460062

    Why would having goals on fiber, protein, and vitamin intake be an eating disorder?

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    Comment #48448563

    >The jokes about "5G gives you cancer" is probably not as funny, if you think about the sleep you miss while you doom scroll. 802.11g was good enough for that, no need for 5G.

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    Comment #48431926

    Where in this article do you feel that people are being looked down on?

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    Comment #48414006

    The Chinese Communist Party and United Russia might say the same thing.

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    Comment #48319446

    Indeed, but they do make a pretty compelling schadenfreude.

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    Comment #48261522

    >CEOs with poor backgrounds. What's the percentage here?

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    Comment #48251056

    Trump equivocated when it came time to condemn people shouting “The Jews will not replace us” and the Proud Boys. Anyone who thinks it’s just about illegal immigrants is delusional…

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    Comment #48250903

    > The current administration was voted in with an anti-immigration mandate Given that they’re underwater for approval rating on immigration it seems both you and they have misread …

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    Comment #48250810

    GP isn’t entirely wrong, our governing apparatus has made this something to be expected.

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    Comment #48250802

    Do you have information on this? I’m curious to see.